YOKOHAMA, Japan – Nissan/NISMO currently announced their tellurian motorsports skeleton for 2018, that embody Nissan’s entrance in a all-electric ABB FIA Formula E Championship, as good as updated lineups for a Japanese Super GT Championship.

Formula E Nissan will be a initial Japanese automaker to entrance in a Formula E Championship during a start of deteriorate 5 in late 2018. Nissan will exhibit a Formula E clothing during this year’s Geneva Motor Show in March. Further information on a motorist lineup and group sum will be accessible after this year.

Starting from deteriorate five, teams will contest with a new chassis/battery multiple and new powertrains to discharge a mid-race automobile barter that was formerly a partial of Formula E races.

The entrance by Nissan, a tellurian personality in electric automobile technology, is ideally timed to coincide with new technical regulations for a championship. It’s also a high-performance countenance of Nissan Intelligent Mobility, a company’s prophesy for changing how cars are powered, driven and integrated into society. Nissan creates a world’s best-selling electric vehicle, a Nissan LEAF, and introduced a new chronicle of a zero-emission automobile in Oct 2017.

Nissan GT-R NISMO GT500

SUPER GT GT500 Class Nissan enters 4 Nissan GT-R NISMO GT500s, aiming to recapture a championships it won in 2014 and 2015. Nissan won 5 out of 8 races in 2016 and missed a 2017 pretension by a small 2 points.

Tsugio Matsuda and Ronnie Quintarelli, a 2014 and 2015 champions, will again expostulate NISMO’s No. 23 MOTUL AUTECH GT-R, imprinting their fifth true deteriorate as a pushing combination. Matsuda is a many successful GT500 motorist in a story of a championship, with 19 wins. Quintarelli binds a array record for many championship wins, with 4 titles.

Customer racing programsThis season, a newly evolved, 2018-spec Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 is accessible for customers. NISMO will continue patron support for teams using a 2015-spec GT-R NISMO GT3 in a SUPER GT GT300 difficulty and Super Taikyu in Japan.

Racing group GAINER will contest in a SUPER GT GT300 difficulty with dual 2018-spec Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3s. The two-car patrol will also entrance in a Blancpain GT Asia array with KCMG.

Details on Nissan’s appearance in a Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup in Europe are approaching to be suggested in a nearby future.

In antecedent racing, Nissan, as an engine supplier, will be represented in a IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with Extreme Speed Motorsports (with a GT-R GT3-based VR38 engine) and a FIA World Endurance Championship with ByKOLLES Racing (3.0-liter turbo V6 – VRX30A evo.).

Additionally, teams competing in a LMP3 difficulty around a universe will continue to use a Nissan VK50 competition engine.

Micra Cup

Other racing programs In Canada, a Nissan Micra Cup Championship will continue for a fourth season. The Australian Supercars patrol will underline Andre Heimgartner, replacing a late Todd Kelly. Heimgartner joins Rick Kelly, Michael Caruso and Simona De Silvestro during a circle of their Nissan Altimas.

“Everyone during Nissan and NISMO is really vehement about a year ahead,” pronounced Michael Carcamo, Nissan’s tellurian motorsports director. “Formula E is a good new event for Nissan, and we’re looking brazen to mixing a brand’s believe as a marketplace personality for EV record for a highway – and holding that believe to a competition track.

“We’ve got a inspired new lineup in Super GT, fervent to follow down another championship for Nissan, and an energetically awaited updated chronicle of a GT-R NISMO GT3 that will competition this year.

“On a engine front, in antecedent racing, we’re a usually code in a universe that will energy contenders in all a vital championships around a universe – FIA World Endurance Championship, IMSA, European Le Mans Series and Asian Le Mans Series.”

2018 Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 Build – Timelapse

About NISMONISMO, a brief form of “NISsan MOtorsports,” is a opening code for Nissan and one of a company’s purveyors of “innovation that excites.” NISMO offers products featuring innovative record and high opening to a far-reaching operation of business for travel use. NISMO cars yield an sparkling pushing believe with motorsports-inspired aerodynamics and styling, extended doing characteristics and unmatched agility. In a motorsports world, NISMO competes in a top forms of GT and sports automobile racing, such as Japan’s Super GT Series as good as globally providing competition cars and engines to customers.